The University of Khartoum Human Rights Center, was formally established in November 2014. It is an independent academic center based at the Faculty of Law at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. The center seeks to contribute to furthering human rights and the promotion of humanitarian norms through teaching, research, publications, capacity-building and training for all stakeholders including civil society organizations and government institutions. The center’s vision is ‘the promotion of human rights and humanitarian norms through education’. The center enjoys academic freedoms and is currently conducting research studies with international organizations and UN agencies on topics such as: statelessness, human rights and governance, rights to health and disability rights.

The faculty of law has recently established a Human Rights Centre. The centre will also become a hub of knowledge and expertise for external project work with various actors including government institutions, civil society organizations and academic institutions. The faculty engaged for the past 10 years in teaching various subjects in human rights law at the postgraduate and undergraduate level. It further developed human rights expertise through research, as well as through capacity-building and training activities for external stakeholders – e.g. legal practitioners, civil society organisations.

The faculty of law has implemented many projects in the past with many organizations and civil society groups such as a project undertaken in cooperation with REDRESS and the Sudan Human Rights Monitor which culminated in issuing a comprehensive study on ‘Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Sudan’ published January 2014. The faculty of law conducted workshops with French Universities in November 2013 on ‘protection of Child Soldiers in African in post conflict environments. A book was published by La’armartan I France. The faculty has a partnership agreement with the University of Nottingham Human Rights law Centre and some activities were implemented. The faculty of law is currently conducting a research with UNHCR on statelessness and a study will be published in early 2015.The faculty also organized training for judges, prosecutors and lawyers in access to justice for women as part of a partnership agreement with UN Women in 2011.